>I can't help but wonder how people would feel about an organization like this enforcing weekly attendance to a Jewish synagogue or a Muslim mosque. Surely nobody would have anything to say about that, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langar_(Sikhism)

This sorta comes to mind, not the same, but still.

Really, this is why we have gov't. Not for military bases in every other nation, but to help people.

I'm against it. But my feelings aren't particularly important.

Why would I word the title like that if I was in favor of it?

Car dealerships have voluminous research related to this on what makes prey accept a used car when they wander into the kill box.

Turns out pattern recognition of emotion-laden language and aggressive shut-down of open dialogue associate those behaviors with frauds and charlatans. For some segment of the population, turn up the volume to 11 and they will comply. For others they have the opposite reaction and you lose them forever.

This is the way of the COVID experience. Landed the segment of the population who turn to news for cultural and emotional guidance. Lost the actuaries, engineers, and statisticians who tend to live in the messy data and crunch the numbers looking for deeper analysis. Those with professional experience, or have seen a fraud or two, intuited deviation from sound methodology.

Cutting corners for expediency through emotion-laden messaging comes at too high a cost to be useful. The strategy destroys trust and reduces overall acceptance. You can goose the difficult process of communication by using these tactics in good faith. The cost is you signal a potential fraud, regardless of your intentions.

Ooof don’t cut yourself on that edge!

Thought Cotton was better with the MC club at the end? Now that question is based on like 10 year ago data. So don't look to much into it.

I'm currently in Muhlenberg. I would say most of it is, every major city has some areas you do not want to take your family into.
I've live around Reading for 35/36 years of my life. I can say I have never felt unsafe in certain areas, I've delivered food to every single block in all of Reading. Sometimes with almost 2k in my pocket (Room Service Express think UberEats\GrubHub before it existed).

I am a middle age white male, somewhat built. This can help sometimes too.

Speaking as a veteran who has been homeless more than once, this is the norm. Most “charities” or shelters come with the condition that you have to worship how they want you to.

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Always an ulterior motive to brainwash susceptible people.

It doesn't look like the results are further broken down into actual useful things like urban/rural or include factors like political beliefs or how they primarily consume news, income or whether they had to work a frontline job.

Saying "Black populations have vaccine hesitancy" isn't anything new. We've known that for awhile.

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Or, hear me out, I'm not gonna argue with someone who somehow thinks I'm responsible for multiple people downvoting and insulting my intelligence. Take it easy and quit being a "mad man".

See, the thing is you should have figured that out before your first comment ;) Take it easy and drink some tea.

Oh I agree about Airbnb. It’s a scourge. But what I’m seeing in this thread is that anyone not from here is the enemy. New Yorkers daring to relocate to NEPA and so on.

🙄✌🏻 you have a good one, this isn't worth my energy

A severe distortion of the local housing market for low and middle-income Pennsylvanians by wealthy out-of-staters for vacation homes and investment Airbnb's represents a serious problem for local working class folks.

It's not the "bitter nimbyism" you're trying to make it out to be.

No, I think people only put a certain level of effort to post things and dumb people don't follow links before downvoting because their too in a hurry to be outraged. It's a shitty policy, but I'm not going to assume the person who bothered to look up the details and repost them for our use is a shitty person by default because they didn't check enough boxes for you. Settle down and go be mad at the right people.

Do you think it's wise to post controversial shit and not decry it while using inclusive language? We can pretend it means nothing.

Again, they also didn't say they were for it. It's a direct quote. I'm not sure I can simplify it for ya more.

For arguments sake, OP please clarify if you are for, against, or neutral about this.

ETA - thank you, now no one should be downvoting you. And your feelings are important!

lol, of course they are. I'm a straight white male, and they can still go fuck themselves. I cannot stand they way they go out of their way to make others feel the way they do. Sorry they exist and have to treat you that way.

Mhm. If you note the downvotes I'm getting, the "intolerant fucks" are here in this thread. I wouldn't want to come to any of them if I was in need. A lot of my identity, including being a queer woman with a functioning uterus, is politicized and demonized by a lot of people like that.

Again, they didn't say they were against it.

Right, but if you click the link, you see it's a direct quote.